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Sweden’s prime minister Stefan Lofven has lost a no-confidence vote in parliament, meaning he will have to step down from his post. By – Jon Stone The leader of the Swedish Social Democrats will stay as a caretaker prime minister during coalition talks to decide the country’s next government following close elections earlier this month. MPs in the Riksdag, the Swedish ...

Swedish truckmaker AB Volvo has stopped assembling trucks in Iran because U.S. sanctions are preventing it from being paid, a spokesman for the company said on Monday. By – Esha Vaish The sanctions against Iran, reimposed on Aug. 6 by U.S. President Donald Trump after his decision to pull out of a nuclear deal with Tehran, have forced companies across Europe ...

By the time anti-immigration firebrand Jimmie Åkesson arrived for a rally in Malmö on the eve of this month’s elections, his party, the Sweden Democrats, had been striking fear into the hearts of international newspaper readers for a year. To anyone standing in the main square, it was hard to see why. By – Christopher Caldwell Malmö, with 300,000 residents, is ...

According to a 2017 EU report, Sweden has the worst border control in Europe, a finding which was allegedly hushed up to prevent the country’s electorate being unduly influenced when they went to the polls this month. Its key criticisms are that the Swedish border agents get rubbish training, don’t know how to detect a duff document, and can’t even recognise ...

Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (S) wake up to a new reality in Sweden. Now he admits that all who come to Europe are not refugees. In fact, they come here for a better life, “he says in SVT News. By – Brünnhilde It was in conjunction with the EU summit in Salzburg when Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven explicitly pointed out that people didn’t ...

A student at Brinellgymnasium in Nässjö is suspected of raping a female teacher in the school’s premises, Reported by SVT yesterday. By – Brünnhilde Social news can now reveal that the student is a 19-year-old formerly convicted stateless immigrant with Arabic interpreter. He was requested detained on Wednesday. The rape took place on Friday in the school and reported to the ...

It was a radical experiment in free speech, even for Sweden: give ordinary and not-so-ordinary people the chance to be, more or less, the official voice of a nation. By – Christina Anderson After seven years of Twitter posts on topics as varied as manga comics, ugly sweaters and the dangers of prescription drugs, Sweden is calling it quits. Since ...

Swedish policemen admitted that the current system allows jihadists to freely enter the country, whereas people with perfectly legal grounds to stay in the Scandinavian country get detained. By – Europe Scroll 4Video A Schengen report highlighting the dramatic situation on Sweden’s borders, such as poorly manned border stations, deficient working routines and scarce education among personnel, has been hushed up before the Swedish ...

Following accusations from students, a professor at one of Sweden’s leading academic institutions has refused to back down from his confidence in biological differences between men and women, sticking to his belief that gender cannot be viewed as a social construct alone. By – Europe Germund Hesslow, a professor of neurophysiology at Lund University, has been asked for an apology over “transphobic” and ...

Asincere “well-done” to the sculptor. He really gets across the violent, aggressive, entitled, demanding and ugly nature of these people with this statue. By – EU Times It’s almost “A Wyatt Mann” tier statue. Swedish Boomers and cat-ladies seem to like it though. And is the existence of such an ugly statue confirmed? Why yes, yes it is. The Swedes actually thought ...